Category: Artists

John Michael Osbourne was born on December 3, 1948 in Birmingham, England. Throughout an extraordinary career, which has so far spanned three decades, Osbourne has made major contributions to the worlds of music and popular culture. As co-founder, lead singer, and songwriter for Black Sabbath (1970-79) he was, in effect, a chief architect of the…

Onstage by the age of five, on tour by eight and receiving 50,000 fan letters a week by the time he was thirteen, Donny Osmond was the original pop idol. The seventh of nine children born into a strict Mormon family in Utah, Donny made his musical debut on the Andy Williams Show just before…

O-Town is a band that’s constantly full of surprises. The talented quintet of Ashley Parker Angel, Erik-Michael Estrada, Dan Miller, Trevor Penick, and Jacob Underwood first surprised the world by emerging from the hit television series Making the Band to become a chart-topping, record-breaking musical phenomenon. Now with the release of their second full-length recording,…

“It started off just as my voice and a simple backing track, almost a cappella,” explains Olive singer Ruth-Ann Boyle, the voice behind the Northern UK trio which includes band co-founders Tim Kellett and Robin Taylor-Firth. She’s talking about the band’s #1 UK single, the ethereal, liquid pop-soul souffle “You’re Not Alone,” which has sold…

He’s a futuristic folkie, a techno troubadour, a music man-machine for the new millennium, equally adept at a stark heart-wrenching ballad, a shimmering soundscape or a crunchy, industrial rocker. With Columbia Records debut, Words For Living, post-modern renaissance man P.J. Olsson takes us on an aural journey through the world inside his head, an intoxicating…

“The key to making this record,” says Ken Andrews, On’s founder, and mastermind, “was capturing ideas in the moment, taking snapshots of moods and textures before they slipped away. ” Shifting Skin marks a distinctly auspicious debut for On. The project is the brainchild of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Andrews, whose infectious melodies, personally-charged compositions, inventive arrangements and…

After taking an extended break from his music career, Los Angeles Lakers superstar and platinum-selling rapper Shaquille O’Neal returns. Much anticipated, his new disc is titled “Shaquille O’Neal Presents His Superfriends.” Rather than a rethink of his approach, “Superfriends” instead furthers Shaq’s engagement with hip-hop as an art form. “I just wanted to take a…

b. 18 February 1933, Tokyo, Japan. Yoko Ono moved to the USA at the age of 14 and was later immersed in the New York avant garde milieu. A reputation as a film-maker and conceptual artist preceded her collaborations with John Lennon which followed in the wake of their meeting in 1966. The couple’s links…

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Almost six years after the fervent introduction of one of music’s most emphatic Rap groups, remnants of a post-bald headed hysteria and hoarse-throated deliverance left in the wake of a multi-platinum debut opus entitled Bacdafucup have continued to resurface atop Hip-Hop’s ever–metamorphosing and fleeting waters.…

Matthew (aka Shakey Lo the Kreation Kid) interior but comic Im probably not the best role model for your children. John e. Necro exterior but dark I have a lot to accomplish before I die so I have to get work done while I have the energy. Casper (aka Geoff Turney) the Buddhist It sucks…